Re: waiting on message notifications

Jason Woofenden <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I've been thinking about what personal benefit I would get (as an email user)
> from IM2000. And how I would want my MUA to behave.
> 
> I would want my MUA to wait a certain amount of time (maybe 2 or 6 hours)
> before acknowledging (to the sending message store) notifications from servers
> it does not recognize.

That implies you want your MUA to automatically retrieve messages without
asking, even when you don't know the sender or notifier.  That's fine, but if
that's what you want, why would you want the delay?

> After this time period it would check the notifications against a blacklist
> (at which point I think they would probably be on the blacklist.)

Perhaps you mean this, instead:  if you receive a notification of a new
message from an unknown sender/message store, hang on to the notification
without acknowledging it for a period of time.  Then check the sender/message
store against whatever blacklist(s) exist.  If the sender/message store is on
the blacklists as a spammer, silently drop the notification and ignore further
notifications about that message or perhaps that sender.

Only if the sender is /not/ on the blacklists, then prompt you to determine
whether to retrieve a summary of the message (or perhaps the entire message).

> I would like my MUA to have a command to report the current message as spam to
> the same black list that it uses to check notifications.

Orthogonal to the design of IM2000; shouldn't be a problem.

Charles
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